I’m pleased to share another guest post by Lexie Lu of Design Roast. Keeping a positive customer experience (CX) in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic may require thinking outside the box a bit. Fear and worry drive many people during difficult times. No matter...

I originally wrote today’s post for Eptica. It appeared on their blog on June 13, 2019. Problem Statement: Brands have been running Voice of the Customer programs for years, but customer experience has generally not improved. How can brands make sure that their...

I originally wrote today’s post for CallidusCloud. It appeared on their blog on October 15, 2018. Many companies are focusing on the customer experience these days in some way, shape, or form. Most of them know that it’s necessary to deliver a great experience...

If you want to improve the customer experience, you first need to understand your customers and their experiences; to do this, I typically recommend three approaches, all of which go hand in hand: Listen. Don’t just ask customers about the experience in surveys,...

The following is an excerpt from my book, Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business), available now on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Every department in your company thirsts...

Being a CX professional is hard enough; misinformation just makes our work more challenging. Misinformation or confusing information by a person with a ton of followers and a ton of influence makes our work even more challenging. Over the weekend, Seth Godin published...